Texas · Nonprofit
HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION
HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,636 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($116,219). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $322k
- Net assets
- $308k
What Harvest Seed Project Foundation does
Mission
The Seed Project Foundation (SPF) champions organic and sustainable agriculture through education and community-driven initiatives. Our donation farm, McKinney Roots, grows and distributes farm-fresh produce and pastured raised eggs to help combat food insecurity across Collin County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
McKinney Roots Donation Farm. Grow organic, healthy fruits and vegetables to distribute free of charge to the food insecure in McKinney Texas and surrounding communities. Additionally we donate free range chicken eggs produced from our flock of chickens.
$264,699 spent93% of program spendingFarm Crisis Grants...Grants to farms who experience damage to property/farm due to a crisis event such as storms.
$8,093 spentof which $8,093 as grants3% of program spendingSymposium - semi annual networking events for farmers, ranchers, artisans, chefs, restaurateurs, and food advocates. Provides education and networking opportunities to impact the local food community.
$6,757 spent$7,385 earned by the program2% of program spendingGrants to community organizations
$5,500 spentof which $5,500 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,049.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $311k to $460k (+48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
90% of HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lenda Fidelman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $19k → $16k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 71% · 2022 41% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $105k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION's revenue fell 44% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION?
- HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,636 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($116,219). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $321,636 in grants to HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $116,219 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARVEST SEED PROJECT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing